Peed-water apparatus for steam-boilers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EPHRAIM PIERCE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FEED-WATER APPARATUS FOR STEAM-BOILERS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,685, dated June 12, 1860.

To all whom t 'may concern: and effectually prevent any cool water reach- Be it known that I, EPHRAIM Pinnen, of ing the bottom plates of the boiler. By this Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have inarrangement the feed water is heated in an vented a new and Improved Feed-Tater economical and effectual manner and the 5 Apparatus for Steam-Boilers; and I hereby external plates of the boiler preserved from 25 declare the following to be a full and exact sudden variations of temperature. description of the same, reference being had I claim as new and of my invention to the accompanying drawings, making part herein*- of this specification, and being a perspec- The spreader D applied between the flues 10 tive `View of a boiler furnished with my im- B, B, below the Water line to the discharge 30 proved feeding apparatus with a portion of end of a feed water pipe traversing the the outer plates removed. steam space of a steam boiler substantially A represents the outer portion of a cylin'- Vas and for the purpose set forth. drical boiler. B B are flues. The feed t In testimony of which invention, I`here- 15 water pipe C enters the boiler at one end unto set my hand. near its top and after passing back and forward through the steam space is bent downward and discharges the now heated water through a rose D into the water space be- 20 tween the flues B, which still further heat it E. PIERCE.

lVitnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, C. STEEMER, Jr. 

